that was a big problem. the challenge, of course, is that obama took that and put his foot on the accelerator and we got really much more significant problems, but, again, now, we're trying to fix these problems. i'm not interested in apportioning blame on a percentage basis but let's look forward. the republican house of representatives, if you want to look at the partisan side of that, they put forward a budget. they actually passed a budget. the democratic estimate hasn't even written or passed a budget for two years. two years. the president of the united states is only now showing up for discussions. he spent the last three months raising $86 million of political money, not spending time focused on this problem, and now he wants to show up and tell everybody else to eat their peas when his party in the senate hasn't even passed a budget not this year but this year or last year and he hasn't put forward a serious budget period. >> but my issue is that when there are such extreme partisan views being expr